Discussion: It's not dead, I use it all the time.
It's dead for the following reasons...
Flame 1...n (although highly informative flamewar)
Windows sucks.
I have to weigh in here, as a huuuge closet Dragonlance fan:
(they're bad, but just enough that they're still believable for a bad casting director) Ahnold or Jessie Ventura: Caramon Majere Bruce Willis: Justarius
I believe Justarius shaves his head too Raistlin: Jude Law
because it has to be a really out-of-place pretty boy Tom Arnold: Fistandantalus
good God... Russel Crowe: Sturm Brightblade
not that he wouldn't be good in one of these movies, just not Sturm and hopefully not a good guy Keanu Reeves: Tanis
yeah, this was about perfectly bad and yet could happen at the same time Wilford Brimley or Andy Griffith: Flint Alan Cumming: Dalamar
a little effemenite, even for an elf Frankie Munez(sp?): Steel Brightblade
although conceivably not bad for young Palin Majere if he could act at all or not speak in that whiny voice, maybe a good Tasslehoff
I could go on for waaay too long with this... I'm getting excited to do a real casting call, but I'm sure there're millions of those online already... okay, just a quick one (Meatloaf as he looked in Fight Club, minus man-boobs, for Otik)
Yes Mom, all movies today are just bad language and gratuitous violence... sure Dad, no good rock has been made since the 70's... yeah Grandpa, kids today are much bigger trouble makers than ever before... blah blah freakin' blah...
People have been yacking about this to get attention forever. Remember all the hoopla about Pulp Fiction? Well guess what? Pulp Fiction had a lot of violence, a lot of bad language, and also happened to be an incredible movie!
But back to the main argument: People have always thrown useless elements into media in an effort to turn a quick profit. Books, movies, whatever... Ever heard of Deus Ex Machina (not the similarly titled video game)? Yes, grand sweeping plays that would just have gods come out of nowhere to resolve the plot. This certainly didn't help the flow of a play, increase the richness of the experience, but it got the audience home at a reasonable hour and it certainly made the authors some money.
Yeah, people throw in bad words and violence to sell a couple extra copies, but don't blame video games or video game culture. Cost vs. content is as ancient as the idea of conveying thought and I hate it when someone portrays this as a new or exclusive concept.
They blew the whole profit margin for the calling center. Just another case of silly antics leading to economic downturn... There hasn't been this kind of travesty since the Keebler elves hired that young skater elf and he kept putting his face in the batter. Health code violations nearly cost them billions...
I really enjoyed digging up my old system right before leaving for college. It'd been lost for years despite frantic searches, but I managed to locate it in the dark depths of my basement.
Funny story: I went to FuncoLand to pick up some games that I always wanted but never had. I mentioned my old console and the kid behind the counter rolled his eyes, "It's not worth a lot." I informed him that I would sooner cut out my liver than sell my NES and he perked right up and told me all about his top NES picks, which I immediately purchased as well.
My picks for action RPG: Faxanadu Wizards and Warriors
Don't we hear this stuff every 5 years? Yeah CD's blow, but market inertia is such that things don't catch on and replace older tech unless its:
A. Ridiculously better B. Required to maintain status quo C. Held up by an extremely vocal niche market D. Much cheaper E. All of the above (most effective)
There're millions of examples of this happening. I've heard great things about mini-discs, but it just didn't explode (at least in America). So saying something will revolutionize, replace, blow away something else in 5 years is like saying Dancing Elmo will be more popular than Tickle Me Elmo and Beanie Babies combined. Who knows?
This is my PSP This is my phone This is for being lazy This is for work bugging me at home
Why must we throw so many different appliances together, make one awesome at what it does and leave good enough alone. I can understand blackberry/phone or PDA/phone, but phone/handheld gaming system are completely different ends of the spectrum.
Researchers at IBM recently assembled several of the high-tech machines
Stupid Big Blue, one day I love them for the SCO hoopla and the next they make a shopping cart that blathers at me. I know what I want from the grocery store, it's in a list.
It'd be really difficult to impress me after Allied Assault, that game was just ridiculously good (despite the lack of multiplayer). I guess if anyone could top that though, it'd be the people who created it. I'm more of a console guy since I don't have the money to upgrade my home pc, so I'm really excited about Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Coming... out... so... soon....
Kinda seems like they're developing a History-channel-esque addiction to WWII, though.
We were told the point of this was "respect" to the teachers. Even stranger than that was a rival high school (buncha thugs) were told they couldn't wear hats as they could hide weapons or show gang affiliation. Apparently pants and jackets _can't_ do that. I think it's just a way of breaking your spirit.
This sort of happened in the movie Quiz Show (and indeed in real life), one of the contestants sent himself the answers registered mail. It was deemed admissable in court.
When a game feels more like a job than a game, it's time to quit.
Dude must've had a microphone in my apartment in college. My roomates and I would always ditch games when they "started to feel like work." Work is the antithesis of gaming, if the game drags and there's no reward, you've paid X amount of money to waste time. I can waste time for free, I have Slashdot, Fark, The Onion, & PA!
Now's where it goes from being an interesting demonstration of all the technologies to being a fabulous game, and that really does all happen at the end.
Is it just me or does that sound horribly wrong? Actually, we also enjoy good plots, character design, thoughtful level layout, adequate difficulty, intuitive user menus, goodies to unlock...
High fps's and good looking exploding heads don't give us a good argument when the Moms with homicidal moron children come a' suin'.
Midgley reckons the best clue as to whether a character has any chance of success is in its outline. "If you are able to identify the character from its silhouette you are probably onto a winner as it means they look distinctive," he says.
Actually, that would be Matt Groening who said that. Give credit where credit is due Guy.
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Are these real or music pirates? I don't think I want to play a game with pirates who aren't stealing music... just not evil enough for me.
It also needs to be able to create brick and mortar brick-and-mortar-laying-machines that are microscopic and water based life forms.
The only way to fight music stealing pirates? Music stealing ninjas (who flip out hardcore).
My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just for deleting a Snoop mp3.
And when some dude unplugged a ninja's ethernet cable and he flipped out and killed the whole town.
Slashdot article: Something is dead and/or dying
Discussion:
It's not dead, I use it all the time.
It's dead for the following reasons...
Flame 1...n (although highly informative flamewar)
Windows sucks.
I have to weigh in here, as a huuuge closet Dragonlance fan:
(they're bad, but just enough that they're still believable for a bad casting director)
Ahnold or Jessie Ventura: Caramon Majere
Bruce Willis: Justarius
I believe Justarius shaves his head too
Raistlin: Jude Law
because it has to be a really out-of-place pretty boy
Tom Arnold: Fistandantalus
good God...
Russel Crowe: Sturm Brightblade
not that he wouldn't be good in one of these movies, just not Sturm and hopefully not a good guy
Keanu Reeves: Tanis
yeah, this was about perfectly bad and yet could happen at the same time
Wilford Brimley or Andy Griffith: Flint
Alan Cumming: Dalamar
a little effemenite, even for an elf
Frankie Munez(sp?): Steel Brightblade
although conceivably not bad for young Palin Majere if he could act at all or not speak in that whiny voice, maybe a good Tasslehoff
I could go on for waaay too long with this... I'm getting excited to do a real casting call, but I'm sure there're millions of those online already...
okay, just a quick one (Meatloaf as he looked in Fight Club, minus man-boobs, for Otik)
Two words: "Dungeons" and "Dragons"
"Wayans" would be the third to really get the bile rising...
Yes Mom, all movies today are just bad language and gratuitous violence... sure Dad, no good rock has been made since the 70's... yeah Grandpa, kids today are much bigger trouble makers than ever before... blah blah freakin' blah...
People have been yacking about this to get attention forever. Remember all the hoopla about Pulp Fiction? Well guess what? Pulp Fiction had a lot of violence, a lot of bad language, and also happened to be an incredible movie!
But back to the main argument:
People have always thrown useless elements into media in an effort to turn a quick profit. Books, movies, whatever... Ever heard of Deus Ex Machina (not the similarly titled video game)? Yes, grand sweeping plays that would just have gods come out of nowhere to resolve the plot. This certainly didn't help the flow of a play, increase the richness of the experience, but it got the audience home at a reasonable hour and it certainly made the authors some money.
Yeah, people throw in bad words and violence to sell a couple extra copies, but don't blame video games or video game culture. Cost vs. content is as ancient as the idea of conveying thought and I hate it when someone portrays this as a new or exclusive concept.
They blew the whole profit margin for the calling center. Just another case of silly antics leading to economic downturn... There hasn't been this kind of travesty since the Keebler elves hired that young skater elf and he kept putting his face in the batter. Health code violations nearly cost them billions...
I really enjoyed digging up my old system right before leaving for college. It'd been lost for years despite frantic searches, but I managed to locate it in the dark depths of my basement.
Funny story: I went to FuncoLand to pick up some games that I always wanted but never had. I mentioned my old console and the kid behind the counter rolled his eyes, "It's not worth a lot." I informed him that I would sooner cut out my liver than sell my NES and he perked right up and told me all about his top NES picks, which I immediately purchased as well.
My picks for action RPG:
Faxanadu
Wizards and Warriors
"Come check out the mystery Me's on"
- Star Wars VII: Jar-Jar Binks PI
I'm ashamed, moderate this down so other people won't have to hear this in their heads...
New free iPods from Apple... especially sweet if you have one of the versions with lower memory capacities and get a free upgrade!
Don't we hear this stuff every 5 years? Yeah CD's blow, but market inertia is such that things don't catch on and replace older tech unless its:
A. Ridiculously better
B. Required to maintain status quo
C. Held up by an extremely vocal niche market
D. Much cheaper
E. All of the above (most effective)
There're millions of examples of this happening. I've heard great things about mini-discs, but it just didn't explode (at least in America). So saying something will revolutionize, replace, blow away something else in 5 years is like saying Dancing Elmo will be more popular than Tickle Me Elmo and Beanie Babies combined. Who knows?
- D
This is my PSP
This is my phone
This is for being lazy
This is for work bugging me at home
Why must we throw so many different appliances together, make one awesome at what it does and leave good enough alone. I can understand blackberry/phone or PDA/phone, but phone/handheld gaming system are completely different ends of the spectrum.
Is the next-gen hardware war heating up?
Sounds like it's cooling down, for IBM at least...
Researchers at IBM recently assembled several of the high-tech machines
Stupid Big Blue, one day I love them for the SCO hoopla and the next they make a shopping cart that blathers at me. I know what I want from the grocery store, it's in a list.
It'd be really difficult to impress me after Allied Assault, that game was just ridiculously good (despite the lack of multiplayer). I guess if anyone could top that though, it'd be the people who created it. I'm more of a console guy since I don't have the money to upgrade my home pc, so I'm really excited about Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Coming... out... so... soon....
Kinda seems like they're developing a History-channel-esque addiction to WWII, though.
My patent states:It's all there in black and white.
We were told the point of this was "respect" to the teachers. Even stranger than that was a rival high school (buncha thugs) were told they couldn't wear hats as they could hide weapons or show gang affiliation. Apparently pants and jackets _can't_ do that. I think it's just a way of breaking your spirit.
My High School had a no hat policy, so I guess tinfoil wouldn't even be an option!
This sort of happened in the movie Quiz Show (and indeed in real life), one of the contestants sent himself the answers registered mail. It was deemed admissable in court.
Here's the guy's testimony.
I assume this sets a precedent for dates to be established this way and would cover copyright.
When a game feels more like a job than a game, it's time to quit.
Dude must've had a microphone in my apartment in college. My roomates and I would always ditch games when they "started to feel like work." Work is the antithesis of gaming, if the game drags and there's no reward, you've paid X amount of money to waste time. I can waste time for free, I have Slashdot, Fark, The Onion, & PA!
Now's where it goes from being an interesting demonstration of all the technologies to being a fabulous game, and that really does all happen at the end.
Is it just me or does that sound horribly wrong? Actually, we also enjoy good plots, character design, thoughtful level layout, adequate difficulty, intuitive user menus, goodies to unlock...
High fps's and good looking exploding heads don't give us a good argument when the Moms with homicidal moron children come a' suin'.
Midgley reckons the best clue as to whether a character has any chance of success is in its outline. "If you are able to identify the character from its silhouette you are probably onto a winner as it means they look distinctive," he says.
Actually, that would be Matt Groening who said that. Give credit where credit is due Guy.
"can be removed and replaced like a flashlight battery"
"welded into the bottom like the eraser in a pencil"
"as immune to attack or theft as a missile in its silo"
This guy's use of the simile is like a water molecule from a firehose.